Pivoted bed.



J. A. SOUTER.

PIVOTED BED.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 29, 1910.

1 1 1 3, 1 44. Patented 00a. 6, 1914.

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THE NORRIS PETERS c0 PHOTO-LITHD WASHINGTON. n. C

J. A. SOUTER.

PIVOTED BED.

APPLICATION FILED AUG129, 1910.

1, 1 1 3, 144. Patented Oct. 6, 1914.

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THE NORRIS PETERS 60., FHOTO-LITHO. WASHINGTON. D. C.

J. A. SOUTER.

PIVOTED BED.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 29, 1910.

1, 1 1 3, 1 44. Patented Oct. 6,1914.

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J. A. SOUTER.

IBIVOTED BED. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 29, 1910.

Patented Oct. 6, 1914.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES A. soirrnn, or LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR T0 HUGHES MANUFAC- TUBING COMPANY, or LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, A conronnrron or GALI- FORNIA.

PIVOTED BED.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Oct. 6, 1914.

Application filed August 29, 1910. Serial No. 579,594.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, 'JAMns A. SoUrnR, a

citizen of the United States, residingat Los Angeles, in the county'o-f Los Angeles and,

State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pivoted Beds, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to beds adapted to fold into a wall when not in use andpertains to construction whereby rigidity of the bedstead is secured, and also to construction and arrangement of parts whereby the bedstead is supported and balanced and whereby liability of the bed being accidentally shut up into the wall is minimized.

An object of this invention is to make pr0- vision whereby the mattress holding struc-. ture is made extremely rigid and the head and foot standards for the head-board and foot-board are rigidly connected incleture with a minimum number of parts which may be assembled and fixed together with a minimum amount of labor and to which the bed facing may be connected in the simplest and strongest manner with minimum points of attachment, so that a maximum open space is provided at the sides of the bed through which the housewife or attendant may gain access to the space under the mattress for the purpose of removing accumulations of dust which are liable to occur.

Further objects are :-To provide superior facilities for mounting the weights and for holding the cross-pieces rigid; to provide a novel construction'whereby the margin of the bed receiving orifice is concealed when the bed is up; to provide simple, inexpensive, strong and readily-applied pivotal supporting means whereby the bedstead when mounted may be raised or lowered with great ease by a single direct movement of the operators hand, also to make-provision whereby the weight of the portion of the bed in front of the pivot may said facing or frame; and to be balanced by a minimum amount of counterpoise weight, wh1ch may be readily increased and dlmlnlshed.

Other objects'and advantages may appear if from the subjoined detail description. 1 The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention.

Figure 1 is a plan of a bed constructed in accordance with this invention, the bedstead being down in position for use and the support or wall receptacle for storing thegbedstead being shown in section on line :0 Fig. 3. A portion of a spring mattress is also shown. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the bed when stored in the wall. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation on line 00 Fig. 2, all parts of thepivoting device being shown. Fig. 1 is a fragmental front elevation of the casing and one edge of the bed facing, at one side of the bed. Both are erect and the facing is laterally displaced to clearly bring-to notice the arrangement for concealing the joint between the facing and the casing. Fig. 5 is of the weights shown in Fig. 7 Fig. 9 is an 1 elevation of the inner face of the hanger plates. Fig. 10 is an elevation of the shifting bar of the hanger for one side of the bed. Fig. 11 is an edge elevation of the two hanger members shown in Figs. 9 and 10, detached from each other and ready to be assembled. Fig. 11 is an edge elevation of the two hanger members shown in Figs. 9, 10 and 11, assembled ready for installation. Fig. 12 is a fragmental plan showing the casing and portions of the bedstead sectioned on line m, Figs. 5, 13 and 13. Fig. 13 is a fragmental elevation from line a -00, Figs. 1, 7, 12 and 15, showing a hanger, a standard and a weight intact. The

fragmental elevation of the jamb recessed tional elevation of a foot standard on line as", Fig. 16. Fig. 18 is a view of one of the,

head-board hinges attached to the foot of one of the head-board posts. Fig. 19 is a fragmental sectional elevation of the headboard sectioned through one of the headboard posts and hinges on line 00 Fig. 18. Fig. 20 is a fragmental sectional detail of one of the forms in which members -'of the head-board and foot-board may be connected at the corners. V

The upright supporter receptacle 1 may I be a part of the wall of the building having a floor 2, and the bedstead is pivoted in said support by a, Shifting-fulcrum pivoting or hanging device 3 and comprises a pair of weight-bearing head standards 4, 5, a pair of foot-standards 6, 7, two side rails 8, 9,

. the frame, and said head standards are protwo mattress cross-pieces 10, 11 and two Weight supporting bars; there being means as set screws 12 and seats a, b, on the standards to engage the cross pieces, and means as seats 1% and '15 to engage the weight sup- 1 porting bars 0, (Z. A frame 16 in the form of a facing is provided to close the orifice 17 into which the bed is folded when up out of use; and said frame is provided with legs 18 to rest upon the floor 2 when the bed is down. The head standards 4, 5, and the frame 16 are fastened together by sultable means as screws 19 within one end of vided with socketed rail-lugs 20 in the sockets of which the side rails 8, 9 are leaded. The foot standards 6, 7, are fastened by screws 6 to the frame within the outer end thereof and are provided with socketed rail lugs 22 in the sockets of which the side rails 8, 9 are leaded. Said side rails are preferably cylindrical, being made of common gas or water pipe of somewhat smaller diameter than the sockets. It is important in order to obtain the extreme rigidity in connection with the desired simplicity and convenience of cleaning that each of the standards be provided with a single socket on one side andthat the ends of the rails shall be leaded in the sockets; and by this manner of construction are leaded or otherwise fixed in the sockets and said sockets and rails need no finishing to make them'ready to receive the ralls. In this Way a strong and i rigid construction which can be readily kept clean is produced at a minnnum cost. Op-

posite the lugs 22 on the foot standards 6, 7, are brackets 23 providedwith holes 24; to receive the ends of a rod 25 by which the foot-board f is secured to said brackets and made rigid with the foot standards.

The foot-board is of tubular construction, the top-rail 26 thereof being fastened to the posts 27 by elbows 28; and the rod 25 is in engagement with the elbows, and its bottom ends are fastened by nuts 29 screwed tightly onto the rods, below and against the brackets 23, thus to draw the rods and the elbows down tightly, thereby clamping the footof tubing which could not well be threaded but which are thus as rigidly joined as though they were threaded. The upper faces of the brackets are practically circular flat plates and the sockets are cylindrical and are arranged with their axes normal to the planes of the foot-board to receive the cylindrical rail ends and the lead fastening therefor.

The construction of the headboard may be much the same as that described for the foot-board, said head-board being provided with a rod 31, see Figs. 7, 18, and 19, which is analogous to the rod 25, and extends down through each head post 32 and through leaves 33 of hinges to which the rod is fas tened by nuts 34, thus fixing the hinges to the head posts, the other leaves 35 of the hinges are fastened by screws36 to the head frame 37 which is fastened by screws 38 to upright flanged arms 39 which extend up from and are integral with the head standards 4 and 5 and form the head-board seats.

The terms head-board and foot-board, head standard and foot standard are used in this specification simply for convenience of description. and it is understood that when the bed is down for occupancy either end may be used as the head of the bed. 7

The socketstO of the rail lugs 20 and 24 are of greater-diameter than the ends of the side rails 8, 9, and a hole 1 1 is provided in the top of each lug to allow melted lead or similar metal to be poured into the sockets to formthe leading 9 around the side rails 8, 9, when said rails have been properly seated in the sockets The head standards are provided with base flanges 42, 43 in a common horizontal plane/and the foot standards are provided with base flanges 44. The bottoms of said base flanges extend at right angles to the vertical axes of the standards and parallel with the horizontal axes of the sockets 40.

The standards are elongated in lines paral' equivalent will be poured into the sockets between the cross-piece 10 and the weightslots, a,

and allowed to cool so that the two standards and the side rail therefor will be rigidly fixed together and the standards will be in perfectly true position relative to each other.

The slots 0, b, of the head and foot-standards are normal to the socket axes to receive the lower legs of the mattress cross pieces 10 and 11 which are made of angle iron and are provided with perforations 45 to receivethe helical springs 46 of the bed bottom 47; and when the head and foot-standards and their side rails have been assembled, the same are placed in a form, not shown, which holds them in true relation with each other and the lower legs of the angle-iron cross pieces 10 and 11 are then inserted into the b, and are secured by the set screws 12. Then the weight-supporting bars 0, d, are inserted into the weight seats 14, 15. In this manner there is provided a rigid bedstead or mattress support which will carry the counterpoise weight and the facing or frame 16, and which will hold said frame from warping; all of the strain which comes upon the bedstead during the use thereof be of cast iron; and the external faces of the limbs 51, 52, of which are provided, re spectively, with notches 53, 54. -The rear notches 53 practically fit the rear weightsustaining bar 0 and the front notches 54 are of a length greater than the diameter of the front weight-supporting bar d, thus allowing the weights 50 to be applied on the;

frame with the notch 54 embracing the weight bar cZ while-the weight'is freefrom the bar 0 so that the notch 53'can be brought into engagement with the bar 0 by slipping the weight endwise on the bar d.

To mount or remove the weights when the bed is down as in Fig. 14, said weights may be laid on their sides and slipped in bar cl and then the'limb 51 may be brought up between the cross-piece 10 and the weight bar 0, and when in upright position, the weight may be slid endwise inwardly into the position shown in Figs. 13 and 1.4, so that both weight bars are engaged by the notches of the weight. The weight may be removed by an operation the reverse of that just described. Any required number of weights may be used and they may be re moved and replaced as required for balancing the bed. I I

The head-standards 4 and 5 are preferably lefts and rights being constructed at their upper edges with hubs 55, 56 and 55' 56; the front hubs 55 and 55 of the two standards being centrally bored in alinement with each other and the hubs 56, 56 are likewise bored while themattress supporting structure is rigidly secured by cross pieces 10 and 11. The bored hubs 55, 55

form the shifting fulcrum seats and the bored hubs 56, 56' form the guide pin seats. The shifting fulcrum pivot pins 57 are fixed in the hubs 55, 55, respectively, by cotterpins 58, inserted through holesin the fulcrum pins and hubs. Guide pins'59 are fixed in the rear hubs .56, '56 by cotter pins 60 inserted through holes in said guide pins and their hubs. The shifting fulcrum bars 61 are duplicates of each other, being fiat, straight bars provided at their ends with circular holes 62, which are of the samediameter asthe shifting fulcrum pins 57. Triangular support plates 63 are provided with holes 64 to receive screws 65 by which they may be fastened in seats 66 cut into the jambs 67, 67 The front portion of. the upper edge68 of the support plate may be formed in the arc of a circle extending nearly to the rear'edge of the plate, being there interrupted by an upward projection 69, which guide 7 0 in the form of a slot for the guide pin 59. i The upper portion of said guide is bent forwardly and upwardly and the lower portion extendsaslant downwardly and for- -wardly toward the lower corner of the plate and terminates a distance above said lower corner. At the lower corner of said plate there is provided a centrally bored boss 71, the bore of which is adapted to receive the fixed fulcrum pin 72 which fits the lower hole of the shifting fulcrum bar.

The head standards are elongated and the, shifting fulcrumseats 55, 55' are located close to the rail sockets at the front upper corners thereof. The top weight seats 14 are widely spaced apart from the shifting fulcrum seats and the head board seats39, cross piece seats a and guide pin seats 56, 56 are spaced apart between the shifting fulcrum seat and the top weight seat, so that the weights when in place are inserted deeply in the receptacle when the bed is forms the upper terminal of a p I down as in Figs. 13, and 14 and are well ele-" desired extent without interfering with the floor when the bedstead is raised. It is thus seen that the elongated standard is pivoted to the support below the bottom of the standard, the pivoting means being fulcrum pin 7 2 and shifting fulcrum bar 61, and it is also seen that the weight carrying bars 0 and cl are above the level of the fulcrum pin 72 when the bedstead is down as in Figs. 13 and 14:.

l/Vhen the bed is hung on its fulcrums 57 and 7 2 by means of the fulcrum bar 61, and the guide pins 59 are in place in the guide 70, the act of putting the bed up from the positions shown in Figs. 18 and 14 causes the bed to first move pivotally on fulcrum pin 57 until the guide pins 59 enter the straight slanting lower portion of the guide 70, and thereupon the link or bar 61 is drawn backward until it reaches the dotted position shown in F ig. 13 when the bed is up.

The head-board is provided with oppositely and laterally projecting guide lugs 7 3 that run in downwardly and rearwardly slanting grooves 7 1 at the sides of the receptacle in which thebed is supported when up, thus to hold the headboard out of the way when the bed is up and to hold it erect when the bed is down. The support which is provided with the bedstead receiving orifices 17 has a casing formed of the upright members 75, 76, and the header 77 at the sides and top of the opening and the inner edges of said upright members are straight and smooth and a foot piece 78 extends between their bases. Finishing strips in the form of sectional moldings 79 and 80 are fixed to the upright casing members 75, 76, above the; foot piece 7 8 and extend flush with the inner edges of said members to a the shifting fulcrum.

The facing 16 is provided at its sides and top with a projecting lip formed at the sides by the moldings 81, 82, corresponding to the finishing strips 79,80, respectively, and at the top head molding 83. The upper ends of the strips 79, 80 and the lower ends of the moldings 81, 82, are complementarily beveled, the bevels h of the strips extending upward and backward and the bevels z of the moldings extending downward and forward, so that the strips and moldings fit together to form an apparently continuous upright molding at each side of the facing when the facing is vertically in place to close the opening 17. In this way the joints between the facing 16 and the casing is covered above the top of the molding strip 79 and consequently the crack between the molding strip 79 and the lower part of the facing 16 extendsdownward in line with the edge of the point above molding and is thus made un-noticeable to the eye of the ordinary observer.

The jambs 67, 67 are offset behind the casing uprights 75, 76, and are recessed to receive a portion of the shifting fulcrum device 3. Said jambs are complementary to each other and may be constructed of one or more pieces, of material. In the form shown and clearly illustrated in Fig. 12, the outer and inner j amb members 84, 85, may be fastened together by any suitable means and are offset outwardly a narrow space from the inner edge of the casing members 75, 76, and

the inner face of each jamb is provided withv the recess 66, a round hole 86, a segmental slot 87, described from the center of such hole, and with a slot 88 corresponding in form to the guide slot 70. The recesses 66 conform to the support plates 63 and the hole 86; and slots 87, 88, conform to those of said plates to accommodate the fulcrum and guide pins. The main pivots 57, thus occupy, when the bedstead is lowered for use, a position close to the front edge of the receptacle and in front of a vertical drawn from the stationary fulcrum 7 2, thus bringing the bedstead as far as possible out of said receptacle, and requiring the bedstead to rise bodily whenever its outer end is raised and moved into the receptacle because the main pivots 57 rise as they shift rearwardly over the fulcrum. It will be noted that the main pivots'are at a lower point when in the rear position than they are when in the front position, so that as the bedstead rises the counterpoise weights effect the rearwardly shifting pivot directly as well as indirectly through the guide pin.

To guard against loss through mistakes liable to be made by carpenters, the shifting pins 57, 59, are designed to project into the j ambs considerably beyond the guide plates 63 as normally placed so that when installing the bedstead, if the receptacle is found to have been made wider than designed, the pins will still be sufiiciently long to engage the fulcrum bars and guide plates 61 and 73; side play being prevented by interposing aisufficient number of Washers 90 be tween the fulcrum bars 61 and the bosses 55, 55 that project from the head standards. Vents 91, 99. are provided in the jambs 67 and the top 93 of the bed receptacle for thorough ventilation. A vertically sliding door 94 in ways 95 extends across the lower part of the receptacle in the rear thereof to provide ready access for cleaning and the like. Then the bed is up its own weight holds it closed and when down'it is not easily closed except by lifting the foot.

I claim:

1. In a pivoted bed, a standard provided with a pivot and with a socket at one side of the pivot and extending on the other side of the pivot to form an elongate weight-carrying arm; said arm'being provided with a seat for a mattress cross bar.

2. In a pivoted bed, a pivoting device comprising a link and a guide pin, a frame forming a facing, standards fastened to one side of the frame and provided with sockets; two of said standards being carried by the link of the pivoting device and the other two being connected with the first two standards by rails fastened in said sockets.

3. In a pivoted bed, a head standard provided with a rail socket and a weight seat, and with a pivot pin seat and a guide pin seat between said rail socket and weight seat; the pivot pin seat being near the rail socket, the guide pin seat being between the pivot pin seat and the weight socket, and said standard being elongated to space the weight seat and the pivot pin socket widely apart.

4. In a pivoted bed, a support, a shifting fulcrum bar pivoted to the support and extending upwardly from its pivot, a standard provided at one end with a rail socket and near said socket with a transverse pivot pin seat and rearwardly of the pivot pin seat with a guide pin seat and beyond the guide pin seat with a weight seat; the weight seat and the pivot pin seat being widely spaced apart; a weight carried by the weight socket; a pivot pin carried by the upper end of the fulcrum bar and seated in said pivot pin seat; a guide pin in the guide pin seat and a guide for the guide pin extending downward aslant toward the pivot of the fulcrum bar.

5. In a pivoted bed provided with side rails, cross pieces and weight-supporting bars, standards each provided with a single socketed lug, each lug being adapted to engage with and support the end of a side rail, means upon each standard to engage with and support a cross piece, and means on the standards at one end of the rails to engage and carry a weight-supporting bar.

6. In a bed, head and foot standards, each standard being provided with a bracket and a socket and said bracket and socket being oppositely disposed relative to the standard; and side rails fixed in said sockets; cross-pieces, means on the standards to engage the cross pieces, and head and foot boards fixed to the brackets.

7. A bed adapted to fold in a receptacle and comprising a frame, standards on the frame, main pivots and guide pins having a fixed relation to each other and projecting from the standards, fulcrum bars engaging the main pivots, means to pivot the fulcrum bars and to engage the guide pins to positively oscillate the main pivots, counterpoise weights, and means to support the counterpoise weights from the standards, the means to engage the guide pins serving to. change the leverage of the counterpoise weights when the main pivots are:

oscillated.

, 8.'In a pivoted bed, foot-board standards provided on one side with sockets to engage the bed rails and on the other side with brackets,.each standard, which has a socket and whichhasa bracket being integral and a head-board seated on the brackets. and fastened to the standards. a v p I l 9. In a pivoted bed, the combination with elongated standards pivoted at one end, of two bars spaced apart at the other end 'of the standards and a weight having two notched edges normal to each other, one of thenotches practically fitting one of the bars and the other notch engaging the other bar and being of sufficient length to allow the weight to be moved into and out of engagement with the other bar.

10. A pivoted bed, comprising a bedstead provided with elongated head standards, rails fixed to one end of said standards, pivots at such ends, means fastening the standards together, two weight barsfastened to .the standards and L-shaped weights notched on the outer'faces of their limbs to engage the bars; one of the notches being elongate to allow the weight to shift to engage and disengage the bars. p

11. A pivoted bed, comprising a bedstead provided with elongated head standards, rails fixed to one end of said standards, pivots at such ends, means fastening the standards together, two weight bars fastened to the standards and L-shaped weights notched to engage the bars; one of the notches being elongate to allow the weight to shift to engage and disengage the bars.

12. In a bed a pair of standards provided on one side with rail sockets and on the other side with brackets having holes therethrough, tubular head board members mounted on and extending between the brackets, said members being connected by elbows and a single rod extending through the members and through the holes in the, brackets and bent at said elbows,.and nuts screwed on the ends of the rod to hold the memberstogether and on the brackets.

13. In a pivoted bed, a support, standards provided with rail socketsand pivotally connected with the support and extending on the side of the pivot opposite the a fulcrum bar pivoted at its upper end to the bedstead, means pivotally supporting the lower end of the fulcrum bar, means forming a guide, and a guide pin on the bedstead shiftably engaging said guide.

16. A pivoted bed comprising a bedstead, a fulcrum bar pivoted at its upper end to the bedstead, and means pivotally supporting the lower end of the fulcrum bar, said 10 upper pivot being at a lower point when the bedstead is up than When the bedstead is down.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles, California this 23rd day of August 1910.

J AMES A. SOUTER.

In presence of- JAMEs R. TOWNSEND, OLIVE DIFFENDERFER.

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